laura's watercolors

(15x22, detail) (11x15) I always get so caught up in the fascinating shapes of magnolia petals--they change hour by hour too!--and the sha...

After posting this morning, I decided to go back and add another lily to this painting. Still more to be done; not much, just finishing up ...

Peter and I went to Lowe's to buy windows yesterday and I grabbed a half-price Easter lily, even though it's not in the budget! At ...

I haven't used hot press paper in awhile (it used to be my favorite) but it was what I had to hand when these PJM rhododenron cuttings...

(5x7) Rhododendron and forsythia twigs I brought in to force, and root, I hope. Now I have to force myself to go back to work: deadlines lo...

(8x12) (6x8) Two unfinished pansy studies from yesterday's class. You'd think pansies would be one of the easier flowers to paint--...

The other two drawings from photographs of Hopper places, painted. These turned out, for me, just the opposite of how I expected: before I...

(8x12) I felt lazy posting just photos today, so I snipped a little forsythia to paint. Forsythia was always the first thing to bloom in our...

I always thought that if only I could look out my window and see palm trees or distant islands, or rooftops and alleyways, that I could ...

This house in Cape May Point, called the Flora Dune, was my favorite for some unknown reason; I was drawn to it, though there were, even th...

Looking at Hopper's paintings of New England shore towns inspired me to dig up these pencil drawings done in 1980, my sophomore year...

Here are two of yesterday's sketches painted: did these last night, while watching Once, trying as hard as I could to not care about t...

(5x7) These pencil sketches are from photographs in the book Hopper's Places of places Hopper painted; you may recognize the scenes ...

Shouldn't have, but I did. (What a familiar-sounding refrain!) I added a little more to this painting first posted on Feb 28, then a l...

This is from my Monday class: a chart of colors and garys made from aureolin, permanent rose, cobalt blue, and sap green. (The bar on the l...

Very quick, very slushy winter scenes done hunched over my Moleskine late last night: my farewell to winter 08 (though I may revisit/refin...